Harold J. Laski: “But Burke was not a democrat, and, at bottom, he had little regard for that popular sense of right which, upon occasion…”

Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.

Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.

We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.

To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.